October 2001 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

WebSM study
by Ulf Reips 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Hello, for those of you who conducted a Web-based survey, participation in the study described below is highly recommended. Cheers, --u ******* We are researchers at the WebSM Site (Web Survey Methodology, http://websm.org) one of the most comprehensive resources on Web surveys. To enrich the understanding in this area, we are now performing a study among Web survey professionals. Our goal in this study is to analyse the factors that determine the response rates in Web surveys. We are thus asking professionals conducting Web surveys to fill out our questionnaire. In this questionnaire you will be asked to report about one Web survey that you performed. To enter the questionnaire, please use the following URL address: http://surveys.over.net/websm/study.pl?i=air Our results will be made publicly available and we believe they will be of interest also to you. They will also contribute to the better general understanding of Web surveys. All additional information is available at the introductory page on the above URL address. Feel free to forward this message to other persons within your organization if you know he/she performed a Web survey. Thank you for your participation. Best regards, Katja Lozar Manfreda and Vasja Vehovar WebSM Group Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Email: WebSM(a)ris.org Web: http://websm.org Privacy statement: WebSM group (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) is an academic research group interested in the methodology of Web surveys. We are committed to maintaining the privacy of the respondents in this survey and to keep their answers completely confidential. ******* -- ********** Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Anschrift/Address: Universität Zürich ICQ: 16739325 Psychologisches Institut Fax: 0041-1-6344929 Attenhoferstr. 9 CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland The Web Experimental Psychology Lab: http://www.psych.unizh.ch/genpsy/Ulf/Lab/WebExpPsyLab.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Now available: *Dimensions of Internet Science* -> http://www.genpsy.unizh.ch/reips/dis/

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Literature Search Question
by Katie Bessiere 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Hi all- I'm currently trying to find literature that deals with multitasking, and I'm having a hard time finding any. I'm thinking that perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places, so I thought I'd ask here. Essentially, I'd like to find literature dealing with multitasking (by individuals) in computer use, but I'm also looking for any literature (be it psychology, business, etc...) on multitasking in general - not necessarily dealing with computers. If anyone has any ideas or knows of anything, I'd really appreciate some help! Thanks, katie

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Correction for Paper: Internet and Social Capital
by Anabel Quan Haase 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Dear AoIR members: Important Correction re Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan Haase, Keith Hampton and James Witte, "Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment." _American Behavioral Scientist_, 45, 3 (November 2001): 437-56. Please note that this paper was presented at The AOIR INTERConnections 2. Conference [Session # 434: Social Capital] We regret that one set of results (about Community Commitment) in this paper misinterpreted an important association. We stated in this paper (Table 6 and pages 449-50) that the greater the use of the Internet, the Lower the Sense of Online Community. However, this General Sense of Online Community variable, and the two other variables presented in Table 6 (Sense of Community with Family Online, Sense of Alienation Online) were coded with higher sense of community as the lowest value. Thus, the negative regression coefficients reported in Table 6 should have their signs reversed. Substantively, this means that the More the Internet is used, the Greater the Sense of Online Community. The other two "Sense" variables are also positively, but very slightly, associated with the frequency of Internet use. These revised findings mean that the interpretation of results on pages 449-50 is inoperative. A corrected version of these findings will be posted soon to www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman, and a revised and expanded chapter will appear in Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite, eds., _The Internet in Everyday Life_ (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002). Sincerely, Anabel Quan Haase Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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new reviews in cyberculture (november 2001)
by D. Silver 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

AIR'ers, another batch of goodies ... enjoy. david *** feel free to distribute *** New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (November 2001) Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) <www.com.washington.edu/rccs> publishes two or three full-length book reviews. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. RCCS's book reviews section now includes full-length reviews of over 100 books on cyberculture, the Internet, and technoculture. New reviews for October 2001 (found at www.com.washington.edu/rccs/books/) include: Joseph E. Behar, editor, Mapping Cyberspace: Social Research on the Electronic Frontier. Dowling College Press, 1997. Reviewed by Leslie M. Tkach. Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction. Routledge, 1999. Reviewed by Tapas Ray. Ken Goldberg, editor, The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet. MIT Press, 2000. Reviewed by Jonathan J. Lillie. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS, contact us directly at <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu>. As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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Literature Search Question
by Dave Farkas 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

This is a "pop" book rather than a research finding, but Douglas Rushkoff argues that the generation of people raised on computers, video games, and television are more adept at multitasking than earlier generations. The book is Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids, New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1999. It's actually a revision of an earlier book. Dave Farkas Dept. of Technical Communication University of Washington

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request resubmission of new media and culture journal announcement to aoir.org/members
by jeremy hunsinger 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

Hi I didn't even see who submitted this so this is a general call, because i actually clicked delete instead of edit(which starts the process of approval), please resubmit it to aoir.org/members/ so that i can approve it this time:) apologies jeremy

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Fw: Conference: Global E-Quality - Rethinking ICTs in Africa, Asia and Latin America
by Frank Schaap 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

I'm forwarding this conference announcement for a friend who is on the organising committee. Interesting conference, interesting people showing up there. Infonomics seems on a roll, next year they will host the AoIR Internet Research conference. Cheers, Frank. --- START OF FORWARDED MESSAGE ----------------------------------------- Dear all, Herewith I would like to draw your attention to a conference organized by the International Institute Of Infonomics from March 24 - 27, 2002 in Maastricht (The Netherlands), titled "Global E-Quality - Rethinking ICTs in Africa, Asia and Latin America", a conference that will bring together academics from all over the world. You can find further details on http://www.infonomics.nl/globalequality/ A brief intro Today's world can very well be considered to be a wired one, encapsulated by what is known as the World Wide Web. As the digitisation of society unfolds, there is an increasing need to know whether this phenomenon will engender an E-Qual society globally. This conference will address this subject by analysing ICTs, with a particular focus on the Internet, in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Global E-Quality will bring together academics from different disciplines from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The conference is dialogue-driven; its main format will be a series of workshops chaired by leading experts in the field. The number of participants will be limited in order to facilitate an open and in-depth debate. We suggest that you register as early as possible. Global E-Quality is being organised by the International Institute of Infonomics, a new venture of the University of Maastricht and Hogeschool Zuyd, sponsored by the European Commission. In case you require further information after visiting the website, please do not hesitate to contact me. With kind regards, Jeroen de Kloet ______________________________________ Jeroen de Kloet Researcher International Institute of Infonomics PO Box 2606 6401 DC Heerlen The Netherlands t +31-(0)45-5707690 f +31-(0)45-5706262 e jeroen.dekloet(a)infonomics.nl w www.infonomics.nl --- END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE ------------------------------------------- -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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Thanks for Suggestions
by thomas/swiss 28 Oct '01

28 Oct '01

Thanks to all who offered film/video suggestions in re: the internet and pedagogy. All suggestions that were made appeared on the full list over the last week, fyi. --Thom

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CMC conference proceedings
by Michael Totschnig 28 Oct '01

28 Oct '01

Hello, the francophone and francophile members of this list might be interested in the following announcement. Regards, Michael Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication électronique des actes du colloque « La communication médiatisée par ordinateur (CMO) : un carrefour de problématiques », organisé dans le cadre du 69e Congrès de l'Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (Acfas) à l'Université de Sherbrooke les 15 et 16 mai 2001. http://grm.uqam.ca/cmo2001/actes.html Vous y trouverez: - l'introduction du colloque par Serge Proulx, responsable scientifique de celui-ci, - en vedette le texte de la conférence d'ouverture de Dominique Boullier, « Les machines changent, les médiations restent », - le texte de vingt autres communications dressant - fidèlement à l'objectif du colloque - l'état des lieux des recherches traitant de la CMO, y cernant les convergences et les divergences à travers la multiplicité des approches théoriques, des problématiques et des objets d'études. - la synthèse de la table-ronde « Actualité et avenir de la notion de "communication médiatisée par ordinateur" » animée par Serge Proulx et à laquelle ont participé Thierry Bardini, Dominique Boullier, Jean-Guy Meunier et Gaëtan Tremblay. Nous souhaitons que ces actes suscitent de nouveaux débats dans le cadre d'un forum auquel nous invitons toute personne intéressée par la CMO comme enjeu de recherches interdisciplinaires à participer. http://cmo.uqam.ca/mailman/listinfo/cmo-discussion le Groupe de recherche sur les médias (http://grm.uqam.ca/) la révue électronique COMMposite (http://COMMposite.org)

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UK Government's Major E-Democracy Push - Articles, Releases, Key Speech (A BIG DEAL)
by Steven Clift 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

I am on the look out for other government-led "e-democracy" efforts (at any level) similiar to the recent UK announcements (see below). If you are interested in this issue, join my 2200 person Democracies Online Newswire e-mail annoucement list <http://www.e-democracy.org/do> for updates on this new e-government trend. Thanks, Steven Clift Democeracies Online Newswire *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** The "e-democracy" shot heard around the world. The UK government has just announced a major e-democracy policy. Yes, a government-led e-democracy agenda. In my opinion, e-government will succeed only if it stands on two equal legs - service and democracy. I expect that many leading governments around the world will take up the UK's call and launch their own e-democracy initiatives to build a more balanced and successful approach to e-government. This is a completely new phase in the evolution of thought about government's democratic role in the information age - that of an initiator and actor and not simply a reactor to political and civic uses of the Internet that wash over their old forms of decision- making while elected and appointed officials feel helpless without the online tools required to be better representatives. Think of this new movement as "Representative E-Government," where the two-way Internet is integrated into the governance and representation process on par with the provision of online transaction services. The alternative is a services first approach that automates the government services that people no longer want in a way the increases the power of administration over elective representatives and citizens. What the UK government has done is break through the narrow notion that e-democracy is about outsiders pushing for online voting about everything. Instead, building e-democracy is a fundamental responsibility of a legitimate democratic nation in the information age. Hooray. Below are links to some news coverage, a press release from the UK Prime Minister's office, the major speech given by Douglas Alexander the Minister for E-commerce and Competitiveness, and another more detailed press release from the Department of Trade and Industry. Steven Clift Democracies Online http://www.e-democracy.org/do Press coverage about the e-democracy policies announced by the UK government: E-democracy moves up the agenda http://www.ukauthority.com/articles/story378.asp UK Govt calls for e-democracy http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22477.html Some semi-related coverage: Blair 'big bang' theory to delay freedom act (Not all rosey) http://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,9061,581045,00.html Labour MP calls for e-mail democracy (Oct 22, related) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001364829,00.html

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